In their past two games — a loss and a shootout loss — the Devils have scored one goal in 125 minutes of ice time.

Heading into tonight’s match at the Prudential Center against Columbus (7:00, MSG Plus, WFAN 660 AM), coach Jacques Lemaire is looking for his team’s skill players to get focused and back on track.

“Guys that have the potential to score, they have to bear down, OK?” Lemaire said after yesterday’s practice. “They have to bear down in practice on every pass, on every shot that they make, so they have confidence and they bring that in the game, and they do the same thing in the game.”

One of the players Lemaire was referring to was Ilya Kovalchuk. The star winger has not recorded a point in his past four games, and missed Saturday’s 1-0 loss to the Blues in order to be with his wife for the birth of their third child, Artem. Kovalchuk admitted that being away from his wife for the past month before the birth of their son weighed on his mind.

“You always worry about your family,” Kovalchuk said. “But everything went well and everybody is healthy, so it’s good.”

As a way to get Kovalchuk going, Lemaire has been playing him at the point for the entire two minutes of Devils’ power plays. With defenseman Paul Martin back from his fractured left forearm, Lemaire has another option at the point, but said he is not going to change his game plan.

“It’s a shot that we need,” Lemaire said. “Paul can have a smart shot . . . not a shot, [but] a smart shot.”

Now that Kovalchuk’s son has been born, Lemaire is hoping Kovalchuk can soon return to the way he played in his first 12 games with the Devils, when he had five goals and seven assists.

“We don’t know what’s on his mind,” he said. “Now he’s got the baby and moving with the wife and all that, it’s a lot of worries.

“It’s a matter of time. I like his game, I like what he does. . . . We all would like him to get some goals, but he’s working, and that’s the main thing for now.”